[HADOOP-8889] Upgrade to Surefire 2.12.3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha, 0.23.5
• Component/s: build, test
• Target Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 05/Oct/12 23:10
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:25
• Resolved: 06/Oct/12 00:59

Description

Surefire 2.12.3 has a couple improvements which are helpful for us. In particular, it fixes http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-817 which has been aggravating in the past.